- ↓ 300.00
- ꩜ 384.34
- ↑ 400.00
{P}{L} → Reflect Shield
If an attack does damage to Shining Mewtwo during your opponent’s next turn (even if Shining Mewtwo is Knocked Out), flip a coin. If heads, prevent all damage done to Shining Mewtwo from that attack (any other effects of attacks still happen) and do 20 damage to the attacking Pokémon.
{P}{P}{R} → Psyburst : 40+
Discard a {R} Energy card attached to Shining Mewtwo or this attack does nothing. This attack does 40 damage plus 10 damage for each Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.
· Shining rule: You can’t have more than 1 Shining Mewtwo in your deck.
illus. Hironobu Yoshida · LV.63
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It uses its highly developed psychic powers to defeat its enemies before they even have time to think.
Jack Stensrud
I wonder if Fliptini works for it’s first attack. This could be a pretty cool card in Unlimited (assuming no donk decks are around) to just deny everything. Run it with defenders and potions to reduce damage forever, and eventually drop a Psyburst for the last KO.
Blob Takeshi
Back when shiny Mewtwo was blue.
… Wait…
Ambassador
Yes, this is a “Shiny Mewtwo”. It’s worth pointing out that “Shiny” was originally a English fandom term that was based on the sparkle animation when the Pokémon in question would show up on screen in the video games, and while the TCG’s N3 and N4 Shining Pokémon [ひかる 𝐇𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐮¹] appeared to ‘confirm’ this as official for said English fandom, the equivalent cards in the JP fandom did no such thing.
Bulbapedia actually has a decent write-up regarding this topic, so I’ll link it here; https://archive.ph/wBfcJ#Japanese but effectively, the Japanese fandom – and games – have more often used the term いろちがい [𝐈𝐫𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐢], which translates as “Color variation”, and is functionally synonymous with the English fanterm “Shiny”… but it feels like it’s had this effect of making the English fandom think each Pokémon has a ‘correct Shiny’, and anything else is wrong. “Color variation” is a more open-ended term and it probably would’ve been better for everyone if this kind of terminology had taken off in the English fandom – there was a somewhat belated appearance of the term “ALT. COLOR” in the text of FireRed & LeafGreen, but it went mostly unnoticed, and by that point “Shiny” was too entrenched. (“Shiny” becomes an ‘official’ term in EN language marketing sometime during Gen 3 or 4, and makes an appearance in the video games starting with Pokémon BW².)
Like, “Shiny” isn’t really any less inclusive/all-encompassing a term than “alt. color” or “color variant” is, but people seem to think it is? And so the recurring thing in the English fandom that this Mewtwo and/or its different colors in the Smash Bros. games “aren’t Shiny”, or Mudkip ✩ “isn’t Shiny”, and so on, is this recurring “um, actually” that is going to continue – they *are* all alt. color Pokémon.
¹ “Shining” is a fair translation, that’s not being contested by me here.
² BW being the first mainline games to not have any translation work for the English versions done on them by Nob Ogasawara, a notable symptom of a shift in how NOA/TPCI approached its translation work for those games and onward.
Twylis
The more open-ended concept also tracks with how Stadium 2 featured completely different shiny forms in many cases, and how several shinies got changed between gens 2 and 3.
This video documents the former group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3aABa2zCLo
Ambassador
I knew some shiny colors got changed from gen 2 to gen 3 in the handheld games, but I assumed Colo & XD had ported over all the Stadium 2 shiny colors in a pretty much one-to-one fashion. Interesting to see it’s not what happened in a number of cases – the channel of the video you’ve linked to also has a gen 3 video, gen 4, etc.!
Otaku
I just finally noticed that the “Shining Rule” that appears on the original Shining Pokémon is not listed in the text spoiler. Well, at least on this card. ;)
Strč prst skrz krk
The move “Psyburst” later returns on Attack Form Deoxys ex.
Nos
One of my favorite cards ever. It’s just a couple tweaks away from actually being usable. If “Psyburst” performed the way it did in later sets, where the discard was optional, it would be a nice spammable attack. And Reflect Shield is a very flavorful move, but it winds up being a worse Agility type attack, since the damage isn’t even guaranteed. Maybe there’s some benefit to dealing damage during your opponent’s turn that I’m not seeing.